Climate and Ag in the news
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Have you ever been in a flash flood? Here is a terrifying 12-minute video of four adventurers who were canyoneering in Zion National Park and got caught by a flash flood forming waterfalls over the side of the canyon. They were not watching the radar carefully and they thought they would be safe where they…
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In the latest issue of the Stripling Irrigation Park newsletter, Calvin Perry noted that the lawsuit between Georgia and Florida regarding the use of water headed downstream into Apalachicola Bay is going back to the Supreme Court. Here is what the newsletter said: It appears that the US Supreme Court will, once again, hear oral…
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For those of you who are in Georgia, you might be interested in this new web site recently introduced by the Georgia Climate Project. You can see it at https://www.georgiaclimateproject.org/portal/. This portal is intended to provide resources to address how climate change is affecting different sectors of Georgia’s economy and environment. The first theme is…
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In this blog we often talk about the impacts of El Nino and La Nina about the local climate. But the combination of the two, called ENSO for El Nino Southern Oscillation, also affects the climate across many other parts of the world, causing floods in some places and droughts in others. This article from…
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The Resilient Rural America Project is a program that is designed to help rural Americans become more resilient to extreme weather as well as changing climate conditions. You can read more about it at https://resilientruralamerica.org/. One of their major outputs so far has been an online module that rural communities can use to help assess…
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Growing Georgia published an article from the Georgia Farm Bureau which provided a good and extensive look at the impacts that extreme weather and drought have had on Georgia crops this year. They also discuss what producers are watching as they harvest their crops. You can read it at https://georgia.growingamerica.com/news/2020/10/challenges-loom-harvest-season-commences.
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The UGA Weather Network got a nice mention by Walter Reeves, the Georgia Gardener, in his weekly newsletter a few days ago. In one of his short articles he says that if you are thinking about planting fall bulbs, you should wait until the nighttime temperatures are consistently below 60 F. The best place to…
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